French ship Bougainville

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Thirteen ships of the French Navy have been named in honour of Louis Antoine de Bougainville:

• A privateer (1797-1800) captured by HMS Amazon.
• A privateer captured by the frigate HMS Eurydice in June 1801.
• A privateer captured by HMS Scorpion in March 1807.
• A brig captured by the British in 1809.
• A brig-aviso (1830-1856)
• A steam aviso (1858-1889)
• A colonial aviso Bougainville (1929-1940)
• An aviso (1875-1920), launched as the Allier and renamed in 1887.
• A three-masted barque (1902), sunk by a German submarine in 1916.
• A mobilised cargo (1914), captured by the Japanese in 1942.
• A colonial aviso (1929-1940).
• An auxiliary cruiser (ex-Victor Schoelcher) sunk by the British in 1942
• The present Bougainville (L9077, in service since 1986) is a landing dock.